Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the painter at Ravoux's, the one we call Le Rouquin [The Redhead]? He has shot himself with a pistol in the park behind the chateau." So, recalls 89-year-old Henry Maurage, the news that Vincent Van Gogh was dead swept through the obscure town of Auvers-sur-Oise one Sunday in July 1890. Since then the small town where Van Gogh ended his tortured life and the tiny room where he lived have become historical shrines...
...competitive challenge of the nearby Avignon festival with Goldoni and Aristophanes, Romeo and Juliet, Emmanuel Roblès' Montserrat, a presentation in the original Provençal of Frédéric Mistral's poem Calendau, and a production called A Meeting with Vincent Van Gogh in Aries, based on the painter's correspondence with his brother Theo...
...last hundred years there have been a number of historic art exhibitions: Van Gogh's first one-man show, the first public display of Fauvist painting, and many other showings that initiated radical, new approaches to art. But lately, those exciting days have been occuring at greater and greater intervals. All this makes "The Artist and The Book" an especially extraordinary event, for this vast exhibit presents a new genre to the gallery-going world...
...Placid Van Gogh. Biblical themes, so often shown in bloody violence are also restrained: Carpaccio's The Meditation on the Passion, a somewhat surrealistic scene of peaceful death, or Giovanni di Paolo's Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, a nonviolent exile in which the principals appear to have shed everything, including expressions of remorse. Of the relatively few El Grecos in the U.S., the chosen canvas is not an anguished saint or sinner, but a corpulent Trinitarian monk at ease in an armchair...
...similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's gently shaded Venetian Scene...